Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: Rotating a Page of Text.
Have you ever wanted to rotate the text in your Word document 90 degrees in relation to your headers and footers? As has been discussed in other WordTips, there are a couple of ways to do this using Word's native capabilities. (You can insert a text box and rotate the text within that textbox, insert a table and rotate the text within a cell, or use WordArt.) Any of these methods can be quite cumbersome and time consuming to set up and get aligned properly.
However, if you use the fact that Microsoft started including Far East language support in Word 2000, you can rotate an entire section of text clockwise, 90 degrees to your headers and footers.
To rotate the text, follow these steps:
Please Note:
This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: 
Selection.Orientation = wdTextOrientationVerticalFarEast
Now your text is rotated 90 degrees to your headers and footers. Your page that contains the rotated text has had its layout changed to landscape mode, as well. You can use the Page Setup dialog box to change the page to portrait mode, and the text will still be rotated on the page.
WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training. (Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software in the world.) This tip (1776) applies to Microsoft Word 2000, 2002, and 2003. You can find a version of this tip for the ribbon interface of Word (Word 2007 and later) here: Rotating a Page of Text.
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2017-01-19 21:47:56
Fx1
It's work. And how to rotate 270'? Please help
2014-06-05 06:53:59
Vik
Thx it works.......great help
2014-03-25 14:05:19
Vernon Mather
Fix didn't work
2013-01-30 14:38:53
Jocelyn
I tried rotating the page but an error code appeared. It said compile error: expected end of statement. Please help!
2012-10-17 03:15:47
sam
Thanks, it work!! your solution is wonderful. I didn't khnow I can use VBE to enter my own code...
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